The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

EW THE NTRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER : Mr. J. L. Toole and Miss Woolgar. At 8, LEAK: Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To enuelude with T (1 E ARE A. BELLE : .Tesers. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, tt. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. U. Lewis. Commence at 7. ISS BATEMA E A 1-1.-THI IT" EVENING and EVE P.,17 EVENING.—Miss Bateman re-aprear in her great impersonation of the Jewish ma.den until further notice. In order ;o give due effect to teis most remarkable suc2es4 of the season, ea: ire,y new scenery by the eelebrat,d ists Messrs. Danson and sons, and Thompson. New dr: ss As and appo . ntments have be n prepared for its productio:3.—N. It. In emsequence of the pressing and numerous applications at the Box-offs .e, ar rang.ement, have now been made by which Seats m-y b 3 ob taine I a Fortnight in Advance. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with Rank and Fashion.—The greatly successful new Comedy every Evening.—Re-engagement of those cele brated artistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. ••Amongst the artists engaged are Mr. Benj.Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson Miss Herbert, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. Every Evening, at 7, the f4vourite Fame of FORTY AND FIFTY : Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINING : Charles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Runtague ; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and Miss A. Cottrell. Commenc3 at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, a new Comedictta, A HUNT FOR A EUSBA.ND. After wnich, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND BURY DICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c. Concluding with MARGATE SANDS. Commence at 7. 7IIIE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," L Contatntru2,- the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, itim be had Every Evening of G. R. GIANIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. COALS.—The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 263. per ton. I Double. 2ls. per ton. Top 259. ~ Nuts. Ws. „ Deep .223. „ well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, ?Addington, W. Best Coke Terms cash. JOIIN SCOTT, Sole Agent G. ARIB A LDI' SP E IN HISTORY —The Corporal at the Christenin g — The Greek C hair at Oxford, dze. &c., in FiJN this week. One Penny. BONNE I"S SILKS a LYON. --Every Art i c le of commerce takes its title either from the inventor or manufacturer, and the more perfect the production the greater is the credit which attaches t o the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in England ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex exhibited posed by the very trade mark of t he firm, as by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark may be seen at the end ofeach piece :—" Manufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., a Lyon e a Injurieux." Wear guaranteed NIPORTANT TO HORSE KEEPERS. — Fo r I FIVE SHILLINGS you can get your horse into splen did working condition, and improve its value £5 and up wards—this in 30 days , by mixing (night and morning) a Penny Packet of THORL.M. 'S Spiry Aromatic CONDI MEN T with the usual corn and chaff, damped with water. 145 Flee -street, City, has bee x - i cpened expreskly for the pub is to obtain tbiA mighty ccmvound genuine and fresh in small quantities, thereby startling the world, in a natimal point of vi,w, with the greatest discovery that ever was in ventcd, for converting the commonest hay and straw into a superior provender, and enablino - an anthal to dizest a given amount or food in less time than it otherwise could. A barrel containing 448 feeds, carriage paid, fcr 30s. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-Garden. Subscriptioi Nigh', This Evening (Thursday), in lieu of the last Tuesday of the season. Debut of Mdlle. Destinn. Debut of Signor Wachtel. First Appearance of Mdlle. Fried. THIS EVENING (Thursday`, April 7, will be performed, for the first time this season, Verdi's opera, IL TROVA TO itE. Leonora, )Mlle. Fried, her first appearance thi • season ; Inez, Mdlle. Anese • Azucena, Mdlle. Des inn, her first appearance in Eng ad; 11 Conte di Luna, Signor Gra ziani ; Fernandez, Signor Tag•liafico ; Ruiz. Signor Lucchesi ; Uri Zingaro, Signor Rossi; and Ni.nrico, signor Wacatel, his first appearance. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre sta,ls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickeheatre, and ts may be had the at the box-office under the portico of the tat principal musicsellers' and librarians'. THEATRE ROYAL DEUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edhat mond rton Falconer and F. B. Cte. THIS EVENING, 3IAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thomp- SOll. Attar which, will be produced the Grand Stage Revival of Shakspere's Chr..,nicle or Historical Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. ITo pains or expense will be spared to render this Dresen tatiOn of our National Author's most popular, and it may be said, most representative English Drama, a becom ng Corn me not.atfon, in example, at the National Theatre, of ti grandee: and comprehensive character of his genius. The cast will include impersonations by those emincit Irtists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Waiter Lacy. Mr. Addiso', Air. Ryder, Mr. hobert Roxby. Mr. Barrett, Mr. F.. Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. u. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M ss all`Rse Leclercq, the Edmund Fal coner, supported by the Members ofDrury-lace Ccm pany. Tue new and characteristic scenery will be entirely de simied and painted by Mr. William Beverley. The costumes, armour, &c, will be fashioned from designs by R. W. Keene, Esq , taken from illustrated MSS. of she period, and other authorities. Concluding with MY HEARTS IN THE HIGHLANDS. Mr. G. Belmore. THEATRE ROYAL H AYM ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. — THIS EVENING, April 7, OURrAME RICAN COUSIN: Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark, Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdameo Angel, Lindley, Hill, Harri 4, Snowden, &c. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Win. Farrell, Coe &c. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nellyl'ovver, Hill, Wright, Rogers, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. • - Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RET URN. After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brother 3 Webb. To conclude with, 10th time, a new Farce, by7J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled DRAWING-ROOM. SECOND FLOOR, AND AT ICS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE DAY AFTER, THE FAIR : Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu. &ter which, at Eight o'clock, the 125th Night of BEL DEHONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle 4." Principal character by Mr. Fechter. Messrs. Jordan, Charles, J. Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, Miss Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping of hate and cloaks, and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. The Weather—Sun Office, April 7, 1864. TRERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.15. Wind—E. ; light breeze, and fine. HIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DIT.-11orning, 2h. 21m.—Afternoon, 2h. 44m. To4toßatow.-Morning, 3h. 3m,—Afternomi, 3h. 28a. Iv Marti 4_2 , 7 e L °NDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1864. Of all the proud names which illumine our English history, of all the laurel crowned chiefs and victorious statesmen who have triumphed in ci mp or cabinet, on battle deck or in senatorial struggle, there is none more brilliant or more popuhtr than that of the great man who died at Trafalgar. The profes s i on of the seaman is of itself especially dear to the English heart, and naval heroes are Unilly regarded with additional warmth cZ admiration and sympathy; but there is something in the character of HORATIO NELSON in its sim plicity, its frankness, its modesty, and its daring, added to that especial genius for com man d which elevated him to the very highest pinna c l e dimness and glory,which leaves him almost alone in his hold on the popular regard, Sixty years have slipped away since that memorable encounters sixty years have passed since the supremacy of England w as unquestionably established on the seas, and the nation was divided between rejoicings over the victory and sorrow for the loss of its hero. But though that epoch has seen the revolutions of a world, yet NELSON and Trafalgar keep their hold unshaken on the national memory. The glories of Waterloo have not paled the vividness of the recollection, and however wonderful the achievements of modern science, the invulnerable mammoths, the death dealing guns, the invisible terrors of monitors and steam rams, there is still an undefined notion in the public mind that the palmy days of British seamanship were the days of the Nile and Trafalgar, that the true type of an English naval hero was the dashing fearless hero who stood arrayed in his " orders" on the deck at Trafalgar. Such being the strength and endurance of the general feeling then, it is natural to suppose that it has found some expression. The most usual mode of paying honour to a great man dead is to entomb him in a costly sarcophagus, and raise monuments to his memory. This has been done with NELSON, as the interiors of our great cathedrals testify, but our doings have stopped here. Our grateful recollection of the services rendered, our admiration for the con queror's achievements has not induced us to seek out more sentient tokens of his memory than stone or marble. At this very moment there is living in an English county, enfeebled by age and per manently incapacitated from work, an old sailor who shared the perils of Trafalgar, who fought by the side of the great commander, who saw him fall, and was one of the four men who had the melan choly duty of carrying him off the deck which he should never tread again. Surely the recollection of such a scene and such associations give him some claim on the national regard. A foreigner on hear ing that a survivor of that desperate strife still lingered among us would naturally suppose that so rich and liberal a country, so tenacious of its national honour, so proud of its naval history, would have long since placed the old sailor in a position of complete independence. It would not cost so much to provide for the wants of the old man, to give him in his age the goerdon which his bravo youth fairly won, to enable him to tell his tale of NELSON and VILLENEUVE, of HARDY and COLLINGWOOd, of the Victory and the Santissima Trinidada, without thought of the future darkening the past, without dread of a pauper's funeral or fear of wanting bread. We cherish the memories of great men passed away, we celebrate their centenaries, their tri-centenaries, and a host of other festivals. We pay large sums for trifles once belonging to them, for houses where they have been born, or lived, or died, for books they have corrected with their pencils, for manuscripts they have left behind. But here is a living being who cannot only remind us of the glories of the past, but recall them viva voce to us; who has the claim not only of having been closely associated with one of our national boasts, but of having himself shared, however slightly, in the danger, of having taken a part, however insignifi cant, in the triumph. And each a man in our wealthy England has no resource but the work house ! He must die in a pauper's bed, and be buried in a parish coffin for lack of a few shillings a week, while thousands are lavished annually on pensions and sinecures, on ex-Ministers of State, and supernumerary officials. And England has not the excuse of ignorance. Three years ago an appeal was made on behalf of this old man, when some money was collected for him by subscription, but the most careful management will scarcely spin £5O out for ever in maintaining a poor bedridden old man. Lady NELSON, in token of the name she bears, allows him three shillings a week, but the parish will allow him nothing ! It was not SANDI LANDS' fate to die in the hour of triumph, or to fall beside his commander on the blood-stained deck of the Victory, bat when the news of blended triumph and disaster was wafted quickly homewards, it would have been thought strau;ely in credible that any who took part in so glorious a struggle, more especially one who was so closely connected with the last hours of the hero, should have to say that England outlived her gra titude. Yet in trophies, and testimonials, and me• morials to those who need them not, we lavish our means and attention ; and while we eelebrate a three hundredth Shak3perian anniversary it seems that a century has not passed before we have for gotten NELSON. Let us make some amends before it is too late, and let a sufficient amount be raised by private benevolence, or, better still, provided by the Public Treasury, to ensure the old sailor's pass ing his few remaining days in comfort, to save him from the last resource of vagrancy and destitution, and to remove so disgraceful a reproach from the . Government and the people. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE de- derv " great credit for the spirit with which lie has taken up the subject of the removal o`.. the British consuls : in the Confederate States of America. Th e noble lord very fully and fairly explained the leading circumstances of the case, and they are certainly such as call for investigation, and are altogether of too important a nature, and too significant a referejce, to be passed over in silence. From his statements it appears that the Federal Govern ment, as usual, are very much to blame, and Earl RUSSELL, with the prejudice and partiality that ordinarily characterises him on this subject, de clared some time back that the Confederate Go vernment was to blame for the removal of the Consuls. Lord CLANRICARDE very properly de nounced the language of the noble earl, and said that he spoke in haste, and in anger, and that the facts of the case did not bear the aspect which he had put upon them. The charges brought by the Federal Government against these consuls that they had committed or sanctioned illegal acts was most unfounded, and the best proof that they went too far is that Eirl RUSSELL himself acknowledged that in the case of Mr. BUNCH, the Government of Washington had un justly taken away his exequatur. When the noble lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, allows so much, we are full justified in assuming much more. Another thing that undeniably presents itself to our notice is that we heard no mention of t his affair before, and certainly Earl RUSSELL did not allude to it, when he discoursed upon the subject some time back. A want of ingenuousness like this on the part of a public functionary is very repre hensible, and must produce the most disastrous effects on the feelings of those who analyse the events in Coto when they are cleared from the mists that Ministerial and official routine cast around all important matters. The Federal Government must have conceived a very low opinion of the spirit of our Ministers beforo they presumed to interfere with such impertinent conduct, or dictate terms with such arrogant assumption as they have done throughout the whole course of this protracted and most disastrous struggle. When we read and hear of thebombastic declamations and the grandiloquent asseverations with which the Ministers and their friends and adherents proclaim the grand principle of non-intervention and descant upon the meritori• ous management of our Cabinet, it naturally sug gests itself to the mind that there is a great deal of clap-trap in all this fine sounding tirade of " neu trality." There never was such glaring want of faith exhibited by statesmen as that displayed by Earl RUSSELL and his colleagues in this affair of the America war. Matters have gone so far that the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs has agreed to the motion of the noble marquis, with 93 few trifling alterations. This is a E eint gained, at any rate, and many different reasons will doubtless be given as aa Explanation , of the somewhat extraordinary acquiescence, Perhaps the noble lord thiaks he will gain some thing, or lose much in driving things to extremi ties—perhaps he knows that before the particulars are duly ascertained or fully circulated it may not be as an official character that he listens to the animadversions that their perusal may call forth. Whatever may be . the real reason or the secret motive that has actuated the noble lord in his con sent to the proposition, it is to ba considered as a matter of satisfaction that we are to have the cor respondence of the affair put before us. There is not much use in verbal declarations of any sort or in mere assertions of the most positive nature. Proofs are always required before conviction is formed, and this is why at all times during this session there has been such a marked reticence displayed whenever hon. members have asked for aoy detailed informatioe, or demanded any returns of correspondence, &c. It is very satisfactory that the affairs of the country should be conducted in this manner, because the danger is that after a stormy session and a series of bickerings and con tentions, intermingled with personal attacks and awkward affairs, all will go on as before, except that Ministers may become more reckless if pos sible, and still less inclined to conform to the re quirements which the feeling and opinion of the public expect from them. Great credit is due to those who, like Lerd CLANRJCARDE, come forward and zealously advocate the cause of the oppressed, and set forth the true reasons for such and such a state of things. After the garbled statements, and very one-aided accounts that we meet with in high places, it is doubly necessary that private members of both Houses of the Legislature should assume a prominent position, and take upon themselves the thankless task of opposing, single-handed, the col lective force of Ministerial phalanxes, and the mighty array of those who always swear by the Government, right or wrong. It is really difficult to form a correct estimate of what might have been attempted by Ministers in their infatuated pars tiality for the Federals, if Parliament had not hap pened to meet when it did. As the surface of events becomes more complicated, and the political horizon becomes more and more threatening, we are led to appreciate to a fuller extent, and to acknow ledge with a more hearty recognition, the benefits and blessings of a representative form of Govern ment. Foreign States may be at the present moment better regulated, and more efficiently re presented than we are; but it is a matter of chance, and if the people do not approve or ratify this or that decree it will, nevertheless, be carried out all the same, It is otherwise with us, however, and whenever the overtaxed patience of the public gives way, and the much abused latitude always accorded to the Cabinet is exhausted, the day of reckoning will amply atone for all previous lathes and former shortcomings. The spirit of a free people cannot always be kept under, and the rights of the nation to have its feelings and opinions represented in an adequate form before the world must one day be vindicated in spite of all the efforts of time-serving and place-loving statesmen. The social statistics of a busy thriving community like our own afford a good deal of interesting matter for consideration. The returns of births, deaths, and marriages, the respective numbers of the followers of different religions, the test of popu lar education afforded by the marriage-register, and the actual strength of the population, are all points of great importance which exercise a powerful in fluence on tne fortunes and prospects of our time. the curious have, however, pushed their inquiries still further, and have procured a careful and toler ably correct analysis of the occupations of the people. This is by no meanq a profitless study, and the information which it gives us is very inte resting. The task of arrangement and subdivision is by no means an easy one, and gives rise to some singular classifications—her Gracious MAJP, s try and CALCRAFT, the hangman, being enro l : L ed i n t h e same division—the professional cl: es s t It is true that the QUEEN is ranked, as in duty bound, first in the first department. 'chat of the Governmental class, and that the is styled t 1 solitary representative of what )".; ancient office of executioner" closes the last 11l the three subdivisions of the professional clads. Economising Radicals will see with alarm the advance of the Governmental body from 66,724 in 1851 to 87,350 in 1861 ; but half the increase is due to the additional numbers of those very useful and hardly-worked officials, the police and the Post-office employes. The military profession also shows a considerable addition in the ten years, no less than from 85,818 to 131,944. This is a remarkable increase, consider ing that Volunteers ate not reckoned, since their military business is subordinate to their other em ployments. The learned and artistic professions furnish some curious details. Their numbers have risen more than fifty thousand in the decade; mem bers of the clerical profession of all denominations having increased, as have also physicians, while surgeons and apothecaries have decreased, let us hope, to the diminution of drugs and blisters; bar risters have added nearly three hundred to their forces, while, happily for the world, attorneys have remained stationary. The schoolmaster is certainly abroad and preternaturally active, for sixteen thousand teachers are added to the list. Of the 110,364 instructors now ranked under that head no less than 24,770 are governesses, a forcible reminder that it is high time that female industry found other channels, We are not surprised to find fresh recruits in the ranks of the votaries of music. The old absurdity of the English not btiog a musical people is now pretty well exploded, and year by year the divine art affords employ went to more and more. Signs of the times are also to be found in the rising numbers of thecivil engineers,while the sudden mania for photography has increased the numbers of its followers from 46 to 2,534. Members of the literary profession are reckoned at 3,580, but this is by no means the limit of the bookmakers, since members of any other profession may write books— legal, medical, theological, Bcc. At the close of this professional class are found some very odd confreres, conjurors, ballad singers, and pugilists—though, considering the pugnacious tendencies so frequently displayed in public by disputants of various degrees, it is somewhat surprising to find only 18 pugilists. By far the largest class is that headed domestics, whose numbers include women not engaged in busi ness, children, innkeepers, and those engaged in providing board and lodging, besides the very large item of domestic service. Nearly a million female domestic servants were reckoned in England and Wales at the last census, a num ber whose amount is positively startling, showing more plainly than any words could do the value and importance of an efficient training being provided for so large a class, and the vast amount of moral responsibility resting with the heads of households. It is a sign of growing pros perity that 400,000 more servants should be enu merated in '6l than in '5l, but Bich signs are not a lways infallible, since they sometimes tell as much of love of luxury or display as of actual increase of wealth. It is difficult altogether to account for the great decrease perceptible in the agricultural cless. It is possibly partly due to a different method of calculation, possibly to the custom of reckoning all the grown-up members of a farmer's family as as sistants. It is possible that the increasing energise of the time have sent some of these out into busier scenes, but when we find so great a diminution as 74,000 in this important class, it is time to look into the cause. The industrial portion of the population shows a rapid increase. Its respective numbers were 4,143,293 and 4,828,399 in the two census years, and of this vast toiling multitude, the hands that work, the feet that carry on that routine work without which the thoughts of the head would profit little, no less than 1,565,889 are females, and more than 1,000,000 under 20 years of age. How wise and just are the laws that limit the power of employers when such is the case. There is good reason to fear that plenty of opprcs sion goes on even with all our precautions. Such then are the component parts of our busy working world. It is a time where there are but few drones, and where those drones have little chance of dis tincion or success. Work, hard work is the secret of prominence in English life, and the dole° far niente of softer skies suits but little with our "black north-easters." A study of this census paper is full of suggestions to the social philosopher, sho wing him how wide and various are the interests that go to make up a great community, and how mistaken and mischievous are the efforts of those who would consult the interest or follow the bidding of any one class. TIM SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1864. THE NEW ORATORIO. Dr. Arnold's new oratorio of " Ahab" was last night performed for the first time at Exeter-hall with very fair success. The composition of an oratorio is a work of no light labour, demanding musical ability and scientific knowledge of the very highest order. Accustomed as the public now are to the masterpieces of Handel, Hadyu, Men delssohn, and Beethoven, a new work of this kind has to undergo a searching ordeal on its first repre sentation. It is, therefore, a tribute to Dr. Arnold's powers that the earliest appearance of "Ahab" should have been an unqualified success. We cannot, of course, rank it with the old chef d'ceuvres, bat taking it as a modern composition, it is certainly displays talents of a very high order, corn bined with industrious application. The principal performers were Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Miss Palmer, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Cummings, and Mr. Renwick. The latter gentleman is a baritone, and the introduction of this kind of voice is somewhat of a novelty. The soprano part has the advantage over the contralto in the beauty of its airs. One of them, " Arise, arise, eat, be merry," sung with great animation and effect by Madame Lemmens- Sherrington, completely charmed the audience, who enthusiastically redemanded it. The same compliment was paid to Mr. Renwick's solo in the second part, "For all the Gods." The duet, "The souls of the righteous," sung by two ladies, was also encored, though it scarcely deserved it. A little of the fault was, however, in the voices of the singers. A very noisy chorus of the Prophets was repeated, but it is impossible to help remarking how much louder the modern compositions are than the old. The chorus singers might with advantage moderate their voices. Altogether the work nflects great credit on its composer, and its unquestionable success must have afforded well-melied gratification. Aux d'Esprit on Garibaldi, (From the Realm.) Salve valde, Garibaldi ! Welccme to Britannia's shore YJu are dear, oh ancient hero to all hearts of oaken core. Though true bluo be, more than ruby, pleasing to the taurine eye, Bull wont run down tints of sundown—morrow's promise blushing sky. Brave as lions, void of science, cool in fight, in council hot, Unsuspicious, injudicious, great you are though wise you're not, Dwell with Sutherland:--no other Duke could such full trust inspire, Whose endeavour has been ever to secure the Thames from fire. THE PROPOSED STATUE OF SIR ROWLAND HILL AT BIRMINGIEA3I.—The following communication has been received by the treasurer : —" Cannes, Var, Ist April, 1861. —Lord Brougham presents his compliments to Mr. James Lloyd, and authorises him to put down his name for ten guineas (£lO 10s.) to the subscription on account of Sir Rowland Hill, of which he highly approves, regarding Sir Rowland as a great benefactor, especially to the working classes." "Moi," at the Theatre Francais, is the title of a three-act pray, and, as the mane signifies, is the delineation of extreme egotism, as shown by an old bache lor, who has a young and pretty housekeeper, over whom he tyrannises, and whom he keeps in a present state of slavery, and also hopes to bind to him for life, as a needy dependant to be the kind comforter of his old age, The charming housekeeper is, however, rescued from the clutches of the old man by a nephew who arrives from abroad, falls in love with the model young woman, and, even in spite and at the risk of offending his uncle, insists upon marrying her. The process of bringing the uncle to an unselfish view of the case, through the hard things said of him by his friends, their threat of desertion, and at last a self-prompting ray of generosity left somewhere in his breast, forms the points for the actor to show his development of character, and have been very ably seized upon. It is a piece well suited to the Francais, which loves the careful and truthful portraiture of some idiosyncrasy, and the result has been a success which rings in all quarters of Paris. DISCHARGED CONVICTS. The managers of Scotch prisons, in their report on 1863, give an abstract of the returns made by the chief officers of the general prison at Perth, relating to 561 juvenile male pri soners liberated in the last six years. The first half yearly report after their liberation showed that the c g o o n o d d u c c o t n e d f u 2 c 7 t : was good; of o th ers it was t o l era ble or not known; of 54 bad, and 91 tohyaeadrallarteeard,yshreotwuerdneodulylB7 of crime. The next re port, half and 45 bad, but 187 returned to crime. The third report, half a year later still, showed 170 of good conduct, 56 bad, and 207 returned to crime. The numbers at the three periods whose conduct was tolerable were 42, 56,r ch and 50, FATAL Go A sp e o c r l t DE o N n T.— th A e ACCIDENT.--A n of Major uest was held yester day at IN ()Hasten Clerke, of the 26th (Cameronians) Regiment, commanding a detachment of the regiment stationed tem porarily in Fort GJmer. It appeared that after mess on Sunday evening he lit a cigar and went out alone for a stroll upon the ramparts. He did not return. On the following morning his bidy was found in the moat which surrounds the work, and in which the water has a depth of three feet. From appearances which could be plainly traced on the ramparts of the work and in the moat it would seem that he stumbled over a part of the stonework on the ramparts, and fell over into the moat. His footprints could be traced round the work in his endeavours to extricate himself to the spot where the body was found. One hand was bound up with a handkerchief, it having evidently been cut in falling over the parapet. The features were quite calm, and this fact, coupled with the delicate health of the de ceased and the shallow depth of water, leads to the belief that he must have been drowned while fainting from ex haustion. An inquest was formally held, and a verdict was returned in accordance with the facts of the case. The funeral, attended with military honours, will take place to morrow. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —An accident of a very serious character happened on the Methley branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on Tuesday, The engine of an ordinary passenger train got off the line and crossed the rails a few yards further up, and then, breaking from the carriages, fell over an embankment. The stoker had both his legs broken, and the driver and guard were both injured, as were also one or two of the passengers, A MAN BURIED ALIVE.-0a Monday afternoon A man named Thomas Wilds, who worked for Mr. Fairbank, a contractor for the Peckham branch of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, was admitted into St, Thomas's Hospit a l, having been fearfully injured by an and before he could a w c h c a u t p a c a t i n a n b e w g h a e t n h e t h r e e d e fro ar thm gave h way,that ho was at hi e usua l immense quantity of earth falling on him. it a ppears from get out of the way the whole of it fell on him, completely burying him. A number of men were quickly on the spot, and ho was as soon as poes:ble extricated and conveyed to the above hospital, where he was attended by the house surgeon, who ascertained he had fearfully injured his back, hip, and thigh He lies iu a dangerous condition. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT TORQUAY.—On Sun day a large number of the crew of H.M.S. Prince Consort, now lying off Torquay, in Torbay, were permitted on shore on leave. With the exception of some stragglers they returned on board about 7 o'clock in an orderly man ner. Soon afterwards those who had been left behind came down to the pier —it is said a dozen in all. They hired a waterman's boat, and two men, named Norsworthy and Hayman, pulled them off, With such a number the boat was overloaded, and wh.n only about a dozen feet from the pier head capsized. Eight of the men were rescued ; how many are drowned is uncertain for the present, but the bodies of two men—Hayman, the waterman, and Winters, an able seams —b.ave been recovered.— Wesforn Morning Nhes. Daring the night the enemy extended the parallel already commenced. Oar loss is trifling. AMERICA. SOU THINII"l'ON, APRIL 7. The Hamburg and American Comp,nys steamer Saxonia sailed this morning for New York with a large cargo and upwards of 500 passengers. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Hammonia sailed at the same time for Liverpool. The gun fired on board to announce her departure exploded, killing the gunner. THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7. The royal mail steamer Saxon left here last night with the Cape mails, comprising 19 bags of letters, 100 bags of papers, and 12 bags of books, 32 pas sengers, and £60,000, shipped at Plymouth for the Cape Government. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 7 (Morning). The Moniteur of this morning says :—" Accord. ing to advices from Miramar the Archduke Maxi milian will receive the Mexican deputation a-on Saturday. Lie will leave for Mexico on Sunday next." BoußsE, April 6.—Stock has been rather offered, and the business done has been at a slight decline. Threes, for the Account, are now at 65f. 95c., and Mobilier at 1,045 fr. Railway Market also heavy, and many of the lines show a slight decline. The following are quoted ox div.:—Orleans (Old) 70fr. New 81fr. 25c. Western 20fr. Roman 12fr. 50c. The market closed as follows : 4 per Cents. 93 20 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 Credit Mobilior 1042 50 Do. end month 1043 75 Bank Shares 3295 Credit Fonder 1272 50 Roman Italian Loan 67 40 • Do. end month 67 65 New ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt Deferred WAY d. !IA IL Cash. Orleans Northern Account. 885 - .. 890 - 963 75 .. 967 50 New ditto — Lyons and Mediterranean 932 50 .. 935 New, ditto 875 5) SJuthern 650 648 75 Western .. Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa sss 580 Ditto to Barcelona 260 LITERATURE, A Wonderful Index. Index Goographtcus. Compiled Sp:citllly with reference to Keith Johnston's Royal Atlaa. One Vol., pp. 676. Wm. Blackwood and Sons. As a mere matter of curiosity we should like un commonly to know how long it could possibly have taken to build up, as it were, pebble by pebble, this mighty cairn of geographical information. We should be disposed to conjecture, at a rough calcu lation, that within the compass of these 676 double• columned pages there must be ranged together here in alphabetical order—from " .Aa dtfoss; Zealand, Denmark, 55 deg. 35 min. N. latitude, 11 deg. 30 min. E. longitude," to " Zywiec or SeypuEch ; Gal licia, Austria, 49 deg. 4t min. N. latitude, to 19 deg. 12 min. longitude"--upwards of one hun dred and twenty thousand pieces of just such precise and valuable (almost, we might say, in , valuable, because direct and practical) information. The Index Geographicus, it should be especially noticed, is, as we have just slid, arranged in one long streak (as the Yankees would term it) of names, of localities, of Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Straits, Archipelagoes, Gulfs, Peninsulas, Settlements, Provinces, Capes, Forts, Harbours, Islands, Parishes, Volcanoes, Glaciers, Counties, Promontories, In , lets, Canals, Bridges, Lakes, Villages, and what not —alphabetically I That is, in one consecutive chain of names—alphabetically printed—from the top of the first column in page 1 to the bottom of the second column in page 674—comprising the body of the work : otherwise from the beforementioned inaugural Aa - moss to the final name (exclusive of those in the single leaf of the addenda) i, e., Zwiec. It is worthy of particular note, again, in regard to this marvellous repertory of knowledge of a purely geographical kind, that while each name out of so vast a multitude of names as to have been already computed by us as extending to a total iu round numbers of some 120,000 or there abouts—that while to each of these names there is attached not only mention of the latitude and longitude of the especial locality referred to, but, in numerals and abbreviations, reference also to a given map in the magnificent Royal Atlas (that ne plus ultra among atlases) compiled by Mr. Keith ,►ohnston, and published by the Messrs Blackwood and Sons, of London and Edinburgh— the Index Geographicus is, notwithstanding this, applicable, directly and instantaneously applicable, to all modern atlases and maps whatsoever. In point of fact, the work is announced by advertise ment to have aimed, in t►he first place, at rendering itself as completely as possible an Index of easy re ference to the Royal Atlas of Mr. Keith Johnston aforesaid; and, in the next place, at becoming, as far as might prove to be in every way compatible with this primary object, available as an Index of easy reference to all other geographical works—howso ever, or by whomsoever published, whether as single maps or as atlases (other than the Royal), whether published by the Messrs. Blackwood, or issued from other establishments than theirs, say, for example, from a e establishments of either Mr. James Wyld, or Mr. Edward Stanford, both of Charing-cross. The work before us, as it has now been completed, we may assert at once quite confidently, realises both of these objects— that is, the primary one and the subsidiary one—and it does so in a manner in the highest degree satisfactory, Nay it does more than this—it has been so carried out as to constitute itself what it indeed has acknowledged its aspiring to do—it has conetitued itself that is to say, a direct and acceptable substitute for the Gazeteer. As a matter of course, in realising thus the primary object with which this mammoth Index Geographicus was undertaken, every in dividual name anywhere to be found in the Royal Atlas has in this vast and comprehensive Index been duly catalogued. In recording thus every one of those names, here, in alphabetical order, the greatest care appears to have been taken, not in a merely general sense, but in a very especial sense indeed, to secure exactitude in the nomen clature. Meaning, when we say this, that all the nearly countless aliases of localities have been duly recorded and catalogued in like man ner. As, for example, in respect to names occurring in the map of Hindostan—in the map of that country to be found in the Royal Atlas and equally also in every map of Hindostan whatever — Pondicherry is recorded here in the Index Geogra phicus, and so also is Catch, but with Catch occurs here likewise as more consonant with Eastern pro nunciation Kachh, and with Pondicherry for a like reason, Puducheri. Ex uno disce mimes. And hence the whole " Index," as an " Index," is really and truly about the completest possible. Another ex traordinary facilitation of reference is secured by the careful insertion of all names having the prefix Saint—under any and every of its niodifica•ions, as Sainte, San, Santa, Sao, Szent. The clue of clues for reference—to the Royal Atlas first of all, but quite as well also to all other maps and Atlases—is to be fond, the most naturally it is wonderful what solid and valuable ia iorma tion has been here compacted togther— wiihin less than one hundred pages octavo. Another work of very considerable value has thus been added to the list of pub ieations now cornrnenc,d, with a pro sr( et, let us hops, of fast maltiplyieg into a sub stantial library, under the auspices and, more than that, under the careful eupervisionland at the direct instance of the society of our London Anthro pologists, The treatise here pine, d within reach of the Eaglish reading public is obvious s, of course, in no degree comparable, in the ctmprehensiveness of its survey, to its immediate predecessor, that remarkable work from the hand of Dr. Weitz, constituting about the aptest introduction to the science of Anthropology yet comriled, penned, too, by one of the profoundest masters of that science for the use of every student corning to it purely and simply as a beginner—a work we ourselves bad, the satisfaction nearly four months ago of earnestly commending, through these columns, to the consideration of scientific readers generally, meaning the happily chosen first volume of the " Anthropologic der Natursolker." It is not, in this instance, once more to a German master that the Publishing Committee of the Anthropo logical Society has directed its attention, with a view to selecting some new work upon a specific branch of the science (not upon the science as a whole hut, let us repeat the worsts, upon a specific branch of it), it is not, we say, to a German writer again that the Publishing Committee of our English Anthropological Society has turned its regard, but to a French anthropologist as profound in his mastery of the science as Dr. Broca. A writer, moreover, upon this science whose merits are such, within the recognition of scientific Europe, that his present euitor, Mr. Blake, can deprecate his own selection by the learned President of the Anthropological Society as editor of Dr. Paul Broca's treatise on Hybridity, thus earnestly, and yet in no respect at all extravagantly : namely, where he says in his Preface—" The habitual methods of thought of Dr. Paul Broca are so exact, his style [is ?] so terse, his knowledge of the literature of anthropology so vast, and his power of application and concentration of ideas [are] so powerful, that a just preference might have selected another Editor." Not so—at least so far as relates to their appreciation of his selection as Editor of Dr. Broca--not so will the readers of this English version of this little work on Hybridity, by the French philosopher, think when they have come to read it, or even when they have come to advance a little way in the reading of it : though it is agreeable eriougn, in the midst of so much intolerable self-assertion on the part of others, to note a skilled and conscieations cutvator of the science of anthropology, such as Mr. Carter Blake, waiving _has any claim of his to the honour ot being in this manner singed out from among all his colleagues by his President.. A more judicious selection, evidently, the learned President, Dr. James Hunt, could hardly have made than he has made in thus choosing the " other" Secretary of the Association to endite a treatise, within the narrow compass of which so much of the exact thought, the terse style, so much of the power of concentration and the capacity for concentrated thought, so much of that vast knowledge of anthropological literature, noticeable in the writings of Dr. Broca, are com pacted together. As a searchitag inquiry into the complex subject of Human Hybridity, the work, brief though it is, we believe to be as yet unrivalled. Popular Edition of the Speeches and Addresses of IL R.S. the Prince Consort. One Vol. pp. 127. John Murray. As a memorial of our beloved and lamented Prtnce nothing could well be more beautiful in its way than this popular edition of his Speeches, in a little green volume issued from the great publishing house in Albermarle-street, price Oae Sai ling The very colour of the brochure seems to us appro. priate--Lence, indeed, we nave just now mentioned it—this same popular issue of the Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H. being in a very especial manner calculated to " keep his memory green" in the hearts of that Great People who had learnt so to love him, and who have had, during these last two years, such bitter cause to lament what still appears to us his premature disappearance. Popular—in the fullest meaning of the phrase—the work is surely certain to be : and it is earnestly to be hoped, both for the sake of the departed Prince, and for that also of his revered relict, for the sake of his Royal Highness and of her Majesty, that it may be so. And for this reason—that these Speeches and Ad• dresses, just exactly as they are here faith fully recorded—these Speeches and Addresses, just precisely as they fell from his lips in life, verbatim et liter atinz, now that he is dead, now that his lips can breathe no other syllable, at once, to any one who reads them thinkingly, explain and justify (both, to the full) the Prince Consort's resplendent reputa tion. They explain and justify, completely and signally, his reputation es a philosophic thinker, as a keen-eyed statesman, es an appreciator of art, as a scientific enquirer, and, above all that, (and how much more!) as a practical philanthropist. Nay, more than this, it should be said in simple justice to the nature 'of the Prince, that the little work here comme morative of so many of his gentler senti ments and aspirations, as a sympathiser with his "kind" generally, but in a , very particular manner as a sympathiser with the great multitude of the " workers" among his fellow-creatures, indicates in the Prince's regard fir more even than his• wisdom—his goodness. It is so conspicuously thus with the whole tenour of these Speeches and Addl. , sses that they may be said in a manner to underline and emphasise the epithet distinctively applied to H.R.H. by the Poet Laureate in those exquisite verses, which are perhaps the masterpiece of Alfred Tennyson—that dedication of his " Idyls of the King" to the memory of the Prince, in which the Poet apostrophised him as " ALBERT THE Goon!" As a poputar memorial calculated to perpetuate the im imele appreciation of his nobler qualities by the English people. the cheap re-issue of a work hitherto published only in a costly form is beyond all the sculptured monuments, the marble cenotaphs, the architectural mausoleums, the porphyry sarcophagi that could be constructed, as symbols of honour to his me mory, by the lavished love and grief and wealth of a mourning nation. The little book is altogether so perfect a memento of the Prince Consort, as one who was " a Prince indeed" that it would be a gratification to thick the time may yet come and that speedily, when a copy of it may be lying upon the parlour table of every cottage in the land, and upon the scant book-shelf of every town mechanic. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN has presented the Empress of the French with two magnificent horses of the Aranjuez race—a mixture of Arab and the Spanish breed. A NOBLE VETERAN.—A movement has been set on foot for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the honour of Field-Blarshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H., to commemorate his long and distinguished ser vices as a soldier. It is proposed to erect the memorial in Cheshire, in which county Combermere Abbey is situate. Lord Combermere, who has reached the age of 84, holds the office of Constable of the Tower of London, and Custos Rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets, to which he was ap pointed on the death of the late Duke of Wellington. Russia gives hostages to the future fortune of Danmark in the annnuneement of the heir to the Czar's throne having proposed for the hand of Princess Maria Dagrnar, younger sister of the Princess of Wales. Tue bridegroom comes of age on the 20th next S , ptember, being four 3ear, above that of his iuteuded bride. The Danish ninceas is to visit St. Petersburg in the autumn, and conform ►o the orthodox Eastern Church, according to tha laws of the Empire,—/alter cram 2'aris, E 3rl Granville arrived at the (Jostle yesterday. The royal dinner party consisted of his M .jestY the King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness Princess Helena, her Royal Highness Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and her Serene Highness Princes Own& ; the (29uotess of Giinsoorough, Lady in Waiting to her M.•jPety ; Lidy Caroline tingtbn, Mid.ile. de B irsct!, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon.Ernrna Lascelles, Lieu'.-Gnerai the lion. C. Grey, Col. the. Hoe. Sir Cnarlis 'Phipps, General Count de Moerkelke. and Dr. K 6,)1, gentlemen in attendance on the Ing of tne Belgians ; Lord Ricers, Colonel F. Seymour, C. 8., Mljor-Gne.ral F. Seymour. Lieut.-ColOnel tin Plat, Mr. S.thl, and the Master tf )11,-:-.llcld, Hik M. t jeaty the litng of the Belgians, attended by G,neral Gaunt de Moil-kerke and Dr. Kt 621, left the Castle this at ernoon for Buckingham Palace. Her Roy it Highness Pt incess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, their Serene Highresses Princess Ciotilde, Princess Arne i-, and Prince Ferdinand, attended by Madlle. de Borsch, left the Castle this morning fur Claremont. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] ENGAGEMENT BEFORE DUPPEL. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 6, 2.45 rx. Last night the enemy drove back our vedettes upon the left wing, when an infantry engagement ensued. At daybreak our troops re-occupied their former position. as well as the most securely, in the minutely calcu lated meeting-point at every given locality of the latitude and the longitude. It is this minute cal culation of each, that imparts to the work under notice its conspicuous and most remarkable value. As a Geographical Guide, and Gaziteer, k:nd Index, all in one, the work is really nothing less than a boon in this age of already vastly multiplied, and still fast multiplying knowledge of all kinds. On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo. By Dr. Paul Broca. Edit.-d by C. Carter Blake. One Vol., pp. 88. Longman and Company. k - -,Wv4O" AFQ , 6i/11 HER. MAJESTY. --a-- WINDSOR CASTLE, April 6. General Garibaldi's Visit to the Opera. On Thursday next General Garibaldi will visit the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden- The performances on this interesting occasion are to include the opera of " Norma" and also the two g re a t acts of Pundemonium. Puns are not popular in modern drawing-rooms, and pro bably never were really popular anywhere. A pun may contain a joke as a nutshell may contain a kernel, or not But the number of people who understand a jok: off-han is very limited ; and it is obviously inconvenient to have a joke cracked in your presence if you don't know on the spu of the moment how to treat it. Something may be done by the formula of saying " how very bad 1" to everything ill the nature of a joke that everybody ventures on; but if the joke happens to be very good, and there is a sprinkling of wits present, who "know a joke when they hear it," the dull man who says " how very bad" in the wrong place is himself in a false position. Dull men, who are the maj have made an effort to confuse good and bad in jokes by the theory that jokes are " good in proportion to their badness," and that "how very bad" may be a protest or a compliment provisionally, as the joke may prove successful or stillborn. But on the whole dull men dislike jokes when there is any responsibility attached to themselves in appreciating or re probating these troublesome squibs and crackers. The authorised wits joke and laugh at one another's jokes in a spirit of mutual accommodation; and society is obliged to accept a few recognised humorists at whose sayings, good or bad, they laugh principally by faith. Society takes its revenge on the small, y ung, and unac knowledged wits by snubbing them as much as possible. And, on the wide average, wills reason. For wit is like poetry in the rarity of the gilt and the multitude of pre tenders to it. Mere punning is to wit what mere versifica tion is to poetry. The wit seizes a numerous and unex pected collateral meaning in a commonplace phrase, by which, without dial• c fling the sequence of ordinary con ventional talk, he conveys, to those who 813 its point, some keen insinuation of satire, some vivid ccnviction of absur dity. But if he is a good wit, such as society tolerates, the blunt end of his remark must pass muster as sense, if the company fail to perceive the point at the sharp end of it. The pun pure and simple, the pun impertinent and ob noxious, instead of letting in a dish of the intense through a rift in the commonplace, thrusts in the blunt end of a commonplace double meaning on some casual word perhaps ()centring in a discussion of interest. This is a bore ; and as desperate punsters in barbarous days were guilty of this turpitude, they brought puns into such b odour that the infliction has been almost extirpated from society. But the bad habit, banished from private life, has taken refuge on he stage. Dull men congregated in large bodies seem to like the very worst jakes, and at Easter and Uhristmas time Pandemonium is lot loose in extravaganzas and burlesques. Released from the pressure of intersocial criticism, punning his in these gradually swollen to a magnitude and malignity which the old punmen never dreamed of. Our forefathers used to pun at worst on single words, but the modern fashion is to dislocate whole sentences. Wit remains as rare as ever; but the mechanical substitute has advanced in elaborate complication with the scientific appliances of the age. The motto of the Conic News is a typical example of this phrase excruciating conceit. Iloni soil qui mel y pence is thus Eugliahed—" un his walk he madly puns," It is melan cuoly to think of the labour this effort must have cost, and when the feat is performed there is no fun in it. Now we wish to speak seriously to those three busy B's, Messrs. Brough, Byron, and Burnand, who seem to employ each shining and shady hour of their lives in cudgelling their brains for fresh forms of word-torture. Cease your punning, gentlemen, at any rate in your dramatic works. Your best quips are really thrown away on your audiences. They don't " take" above one joke out of a score, and usually' miss the most ingenious altogether.— The Realm. COTTON SUPPLY ASSOCIATION. At the usual weekly meeting of the Executive Committee, held on luesday, a letter was read from Nassau, stating that a small bale of cotton grown from Egytian seed at Grand Bahama, wed cleaned by a gin sent out by the association, has ueen for warded for sale. A correspondent at Loag Island, one of the Bahamas, reports that almost everybody on that island has now planted cotton, and that a gentleman on his way to Nassau purchased in Lew hours 3,000ib. of fine cotton. The favourable results so far realised scent io justify the expecta tion that cotton will continue to be grown in an increased degree at Grand Bahama. A letter was received from Se Mitt's, 'West ladies, reporting that some experiments in growing cotton had succeedod well, and that the writer intends to pleat a ittrio erea t year. On some estates in which he is erested in the adjoining island of Nevis, cotton had oeen tried, but had not done well, owing to execs ,ive drought. Some samples have been forwardeeti which, it found to be satisfactory, will prove a stimulus to greater efforts. The cultivation of Coe .on is gradually emending, although it is yet but u 0 experiment. A letter was read enclosing a sample al cotton from Betavia which had been grown frot Aenericen seed sent out by the association. It stated that the Egyptian and Sea Island seed bac; cot succeeded, but that the New Orleans promised well, and it was intender: to sow a larger quanti ty of that description. Eucouraging accounts we 1 0 tl-o forwarded from Manilia. Letters were receiv ed from Genoa and Turin, representing the inaportan ce of promoting the growth of Sea Island cotton 'at Sardinia, for which that island is well adapted,atad requesting to be furnished with large supplies of need. It is intended to plant 1,000 hectares at onct and upwards of 5,000 hectares next year, as ever) ? experiment so far gives assurance of satisfactor results, A letter was read from Malta, conveyin g the thanks of the directors of the Exhibition c Maltese Industry for a grant of gins made by th 6 association, as prizes to be presented to the mee 3 successful cultivators of cotton. The Exhibitio o opens in the second week of April, and informata as at its progress will be supplied. Consular d spatches, forwarded by the Foreign office, we era received from her Majesty's Consul-General 0 $ Beyrout, containing a comparative return of t lie quantity of cotton seed sown in the pashalic ' o ' Sidon in the years 1862 and 1863, and showing 0111 the excess in tho latter over the former year ha u " been 209 per cent,, and amounted to 1,193,7931 b. •11:1 return of the quantity of cotton shipped at th e p ort of the paehalic during the last two years will b e speedily obtained and forwarded. The Cotton COI': mission is taking measures for the distribution °l_ the American cotton seed from Constantinopl e, be given to the growers gratuitously for the tip` preaching season. A despatch from Mr. C one rt t Green, Bucharest, contains an interes tin g reP . ° o o from Gelatz of some experiments in the cultivati. of cotton, communicated by Prince Couza's secre Lary. The result of these experim ents is a_,l conviction that cotton can be advantageously gr own en, in the Danubian provinces. A sam p le has be b y re P .. forwarded as an illustration of what can duced. General Glrib ildi leaves Brooke, on Al°" l3s' tilucniEg for L )Ikooo. Lunch ts or htrtid to b 5 ready for him and his friends et t he Fountaio Hotel, We st Cowes, on his arriv C a ere. to embark. tr :iur the Fountain-pier at ten o'clock, so as to reach SouttlawPo'n time for the 11,35 train for Leadon. •